Perspectives

The Fourth of July holiday is over, but summer celebrating continues with events too numerous to mention going on in TIMESLand.
The Town of Beecher Centennial Celebration is among events worth seeking out on Saturday, July 8.

A response to Country Cousin’s discussion about the English language. First and foremost, The United States of America does not have nor have we ever had an official language. Secondly, if we are in America and are to speak an American language, we should learn the language of the indigenous tribes. Just down the road from us is Menominee Nation and Americans made a blatant effort to exterminate their language from this country. Even though, their language is certainly more American than English.

We have a sunflower seed feeder hanging above our patio railing.  The feeder location was chosen because of the good view from our living room – it is more fun to feed birds when you can watch them.  Unfortunately. this puts the feeder within the boundaries of our chain link dog fence, and the food attracts not only birds but squirrels and chipmunks by the dozen.  Usually, the rodent patrol just cleans up under the feeder, but they also launch highly entertaining attacks on the feeder.

I had been attending the Town of Peshtigo Water Meetings till they were cancelled recently with the wholesale termination of many Town committees.  I have been a resident in this town since 1981, when I moved here following completion of my medical training in Minnesota.  I have spent over half my adult life in this area.  With the several decades of unrestricted use of PFAS and PFOS compounds till recently, the reality is the widespread contamination will persist after most of us are gone.  There are real p